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Recognitions

Over the years, HCL Technologies has earned an array of awards and citations that bear testimony to the company’s pursuit of operational and managerial excellence.We feel honored to be repeatedly recognized for our service capabilities, management philosophy, employee engagement policies and innovation.

The company has also won international recognition for its ground-breaking “Employees First” management philosophy, designed to empower and energize employees in the service of customers by making management as accountable to employees as employees are to management. Here are some of the awards, honors and recognition that HCL Technologies has received.

2013

HCL was the only Indian company on the Honor Roll of the UN-WEP (Women Empowerment) Leadership Awards for 2013. This award salutes business leaders for their exceptional championship of gender equality and support for women’s empowerment.

2013 Bersin & Associates What Works Award

2013 Bersin & Associates What Works Award for TechACE

Honor Roll of the UN-WEP (Women Empowerment) Leadership Awards 2013

On the Honor Roll of the UN-WEP (Women Empowerment) Leadership Awards 2013, acknowledging our women empowerment programs at work and community.

HCL has made it to the prestigious Forbes annual “2013 Asia’s Fab 50” list. This recognition highlights the region’s best-of-the-best that meets a revenue or market capitalization threshold of $3 billion.

HCL is the only Indian IT services provider to be chosen to serve on the panel of Shared Services & Outsourcing Network (SSON). SSON is a global forum that supports the shared services and outsourcing community.

ASTD Excellence in Practice Award

ASTD Excellence in Practice Award for the Business Aligned Training Academy Model

Asia’s Best Employer Branding Awards

Asia’s Best Employer Branding Awards for Excellence in training by TechCEED.

Good Corporate Citizen Award
HCL Wins Good Corporate Citizen Award

Wins IT Europa European IT Excellence Awards 2013

HCL won this award in the Mobility and Communication Solution of the Year category, for the PUMA (Providing Users Mobile Access) mobile data solution program implemented at the Police Service in Northern Ireland.

The European IT & Software Excellence Awards are the only pan-European awards that recognize the crucial role that ISVs, solution providers, and systems integrators play in the delivery of real-world solutions. Read more >

ASTD Excellence in Practice citations

ASTD Excellence in Practice citations for PMStEP and Scalable sustainable business relevant training

Asian L&D Leadership Awards

Asian L&D Leadership Awards for Innovation in learning, Best learning team & Best deployment of Learning Management Systems

2012

National Outsourcing Association (NOA)

Named the Outsourcing Service Provider of the Year by the National Outsourcing Association (NOA), in recognition of HCL’s commitment to customers and employees, as well as its excellence in driving innovation in the industry.

Although it has offices in 26 countries, senior managers at HCL Technologies believe there should be no borders separating its 84,000 employees.

In 2010 the company launched its Working Across Borders initiative, designed to foster knowledge and understanding among its diverse staff, as well as provide insight into the corporate culture itself. HCL has found that its best performers "have the ability to integrate and assimilate in the environment they're working in," says Prithvi Shergill, chief human resources officer for the company based in Noida, India.

To develop those skills among all its employees, the vast majority of whom have been hired locally, the Working Across Borders program relies on four pillars: knowledge, awareness, learning and assimilation.

WorldBlu lists HCL as one of the Most Democratic Workplaces in the World

For the fourth time in a row, WorldBlu lists HCL as one of the Most Democratic Workplaces in the World.

Adjudged HR Company of the Decade by Shine.com and World HRD Congress, receiving honors as HR Company of the Decade, HR Leader of the Year, and Best Learning and Development Strategy.

Won the Nasscom Innovation Award 2012

Won the Nasscom Innovation Award 2012 for Market Facing Innovation, in recognition of “distinctive external facing business models and processes that make an effective impact on clients.”

HCL wins NASSCOM HR Award

NASSCOM EXemplary Talent (NExT) Practices Awards were established in 2011 to recognize innovative talent initiatives that are geared towards business needs of the Indian IT-BPO sector and the future readiness for its talent pool. HCL won this based on our commitment to being a Socially Responsible Business, for which we are on track to hire 10,000 local HCLites in Europe and US; in addition to this, our current presence in 31 countries and the fact that in 19 of these countries we have more than 50 percent local workforce. This figure of local workforce is 80 percent if we consider senior leadership in all countries where we are present.

HCL submitted the nominations supported by strong case studies and emerged as a winner in the 'Glocalisers' category. The participation was open to all members and non-members of NASSCOM. All participating companies had to submit a case to support their nomination/s and entries were shortlisted by NASSCOM and their knowledge partner Mercer. The shortlisted companies were then invited to present their nomination/s to an independent Jury in the final round in Bangalore.

Every year, the NASSCOM NExT awards aim to pick up key themes that are likely to play a crucial role in the Indian IT-BPO industry maintaining its leadership position in the global market and also to recognize unique HR initiatives by industry players.

NASSCOM

Ranked among the Top five IT-BPO employers in India for the second straight year.

Britain’s Top Employers

Recognized as one of Britain’s Top Employers for the 5th consecutive year, for its innovative Employees First philosophy.

By providing support, knowledge, recognition, empowerment, and opportunities for transformation, HCL ensures its employees are excelling professionally and contributing to the company’s growth.

(Conducted by Corporate Research Foundation, UK – an independent international organization that researches best practices of high-performing companies)

NASSCOM HR Award

Won the NASSCOM HR Award in the Glocalisers category, for socially responsible business with its commitment to hire 10,000 local employees in Europe and the US. (Of the 31 countries in which HCL operates, 19 have workforces that are more than 50% local.)

HCL Wins Nasscom Innovation Award 2012

Won the Nasscom Innovation Award 2012 for Market Facing Innovation, in recognition of “distinctive external facing business models and processes that make an effective impact on clients.”

Ranked #3 in the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals’ Global Outsourcing 100 list of the world’s top outsourcing providers.

(IAOP is the global, standard-setting organization and advocate for the outsourcing profession).

Forrester Groundswell Award

Awarded the Forrester Groundswell Award for the second year in a row, in the B2B category, for “fostering CXO intimacy through its Customer Advisory Council.” (In 2011, HCL won in the Innovation category.)

Forbes’s prestigious Asia’s Fab 50

Included in Forbes’s prestigious Asia’s Fab 50 list of the 50 best publicly traded companies in Asia-Pacific.

(HCL is one of only 11 Indian companies to make it to the Fab 50 List and among only four Indian companies to be part of this group for the past three years. HCL is also one of only two IT services providers to appear in this prestigious listing in 2011 and 2012).

Won Workforce Management magazine’s 2012 Optimas Award for Global Outlook, in recognition of its Working Across Borders program, aimed at incubating an inclusive work culture. (HCL won the 2008 Optimas Award for Innovation, in recognition of its workforce practices.)

2011

Business Today magazine

Ranked by Business Today magazine as one of the Top 25 Best Companies To Work For.

HCL features among the top players across industries and has been praised for its unique work culture.

TPI

Won TPI’s Americas Paragon Award for Innovation Excellence and was recognized as “one of the most innovative R&D players.”

Asian Human Capital Summit Award

Won the Asian Human Capital Summit Award for its innovative and effective people practices centered on its Employees First, Customers Second philosophy.

Received the Information Technology Services Marketing Association’s Diamond Award for Marketing Excellence in building client loyalty and trust through its Customer Advisory Council.

HCL’s Customer Advisory Council (CAC) is a global, collaborative forum in which 80 of HCL’s Fortune 500 C-level customers and thought leaders convene on a regular basis to advise HCL on industry trends, changing business priorities, and its strategic direction (including brand positioning, M&A validation, and go-to-market strategies). HCL translates the advice into actionable plans that create more value for customers.

Won the Leadership Award for the Best Electronic System Design Company in the Embedded Systems and Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) industry segment for the second consecutive year at the Silicon India-Mentor Graphics Leadership Awards.

2010

Datamonitor’s Black Book of Outsourcing

Ranked #1 in traditional IT Outsourcing by Datamonitor’s Black Book of Outsourcing. HCL ranked #1 in both Tier 1 Traditional IT Infrastructure Outsourcing and Remote Infrastructure Management Outsourcing (RIMO) in the 2009-10 survey.

HCL won the top slot because of its focus on innovation, training, and building long-lasting client relationships by ensuring great customer experience.

2009

NASSCOM features HCL’s transparency in its Human Resource strategy in the time of the global economic slowdown

“The annual ‘Directions’ meet with employees is yet another example of how HCL is fostering transparency to make it part of its DNA and culture. Under the aegis of this platform, the company’s senior leadership, including the CEO, travel to different centres in India and abroad for a unique face-to-face interaction with all employees and talk about the company’s performance in the previous year, future strategies and arrive at decision in the most collaborative fashion. HCL’s leadership had gauged the economic condition way back in September 2008 itself and discussed the scenario and its implications on the organisation in detail with employees at Directions 2009.

Taking into account the current scenario, and the need to involve employees in the ideation process, HCL’s CEO has also begun the process of reverse blogging, where a blog is posted on critical issues relevant in the existing scenario and employees respond with their own solutions and recommendations.”

2008

Named by BusinessWeek as one of the world’s five most influential up-and-coming companies, along with Craigslist, Facebook, Li & Fung, and SKS Microfinance.

HCL Technologies is ranked as the Most Innovative Company in the world for its workforce practices

HCL was the only India-based company to receive the award

HCL Technologies wins the prestigious “Workforce Optimas Awards” in the Innovation category. The showcase of Employee First Philosophy won HCL this award.

**The winners exemplify the skill and ingenuity it takes for organizations to succeed in the 21st century. They have reinvented the workplace, streamlined government HR processes, created innovative partnerships, confronted talent shortages, saved a corporate reputation, nurtured a learning environment in a fast-paced business setting, transformed a call center environment by investing in employees and much more.**

– Workforce Management editors

2007

Harvard Business School

Subject of Harvard Business School case study on business transformation, highlighting the Employees First philosophy.

2006

FORTUNE

Acknowledged by Fortune as having the “World’s Most Modern Management.”